1991 Starting from the core

Su Yuanshan pretended not to hear Sun Xiao's last words about him being unkind, and then changed the subject after echoing a few words of complaint about Nikon.

"Senior Brother Sun, how is your business developing now?"

"How should I put it? Just so-so. If you don't plan to change your career, EDA is just a pension industry..." Sun Xiao didn't hold back in front of Su Yuanshan and complained happily.

Su Yuanshan laughed. In a sense, there was nothing wrong with what Sun Xiao said. With the development of the semiconductor industry, the irreplaceability of EDA software has become more and more important, so much so that some people have begun to compare EDA to the crown of the semiconductor industry.

Today, the foundation of this crown is still in the mainland, which makes many people abroad very unconvinced. However, with the continuous expansion and reform of Zhiyuan EDA, it has become a "countryless" enterprise in terms of shares and capital. Not only has it established branches all over the world, but more than half of its employees are from other nationalities. It can be regarded as a "model" for domestic enterprises to move towards and integrate into the world.

It is precisely because of this that several antitrust investigations against Zhiyuan EDA that were attempted by foreign counterparts ultimately came to nothing.

After all, Zhiyuan EDA has established a complete IP licensing system, which is conducive to the development of the entire semiconductor design industry.

Not to mention the capital behind Zhiyuan.

Under such circumstances, as long as Zhiyuan EDA adheres to the route set by Su Yuanshan and continues to stay in EDA, it will really lead to a retirement life of "making money while lying down".

"I really envy Mr. Sun." Zhou Xiaohui joked: "Unlike us, we still have to run around and look at people's looks."

"Hey, what is there to envy? It's good to have a challenge." Sun Xiao smiled and shook his head: "By the way, Nikon didn't come to pick you up, I guess it has something to do with Sansung."

"Huh? What?" Su Yuanshan originally didn't want to talk about this topic, but now he became interested.

Sansung, since the rise of Yuanxin, although Su Yuanshan has been wary of Sansung, it is only on a strategic level - to put it bluntly, he has advanced the path Sansung is going to take, leaving Sansung with no way to go.

Now Sun Xiao actually said that Nikon "snubbed" him and was actually related to Sansung...

"Yesterday, the prince of Samsung also came."

"Li Zairong?" Su Yuanshan was really surprised now.

Yuanxin has never had any dealings with Samsung since its establishment. At least, Su Yuanshan has not personally dealt with Samsung - in the EDA era, Samsung was only one of Yuanxin's regular development customers. After that, it was the time of Jiang Wanchao to develop the relationship.

The reason... naturally lies with Su Yuanshan.

Su Yuanshan subconsciously did not approve of Samsung as a conglomerate - although there were six major consortiums in Ni Country, and they were not inferior to Samsung in terms of scale. But in terms of following the rules...Samsung really can't compare to others.

Relatively speaking, Ni Country's consortium has to abide by too many rules.

The plutocrats in the country are doing their utmost to benefit themselves and will do anything to achieve their goals - they are the concrete product of the development of capital that cannot be restrained.

If, in real society, we want to select several companies to compare with the evil companies in cyberpunk, then some chaebols will definitely be on the list.

Well, both have the surname Li.

Based on this, Su Yuanshan didn't like it.

Since he doesn't like it and has a little bit of capital, there is no need for him to hold his nose and deal with the other party.

But Su Yuanshan doesn't care if he doesn't like it or express it. In fact, as the target of Yuanxin to replace him, Su Yuanshan is very concerned about Samsung - let alone this life, even in the previous life, he knew the name of the prince Li Zairong.

Coincidentally, this prince seemed to be a few years older than himself. Even in some street stall magazines, Su Yuanshan and Li Zaiyong were compared together, and he was compared to the prince of Yuanxin.

To be honest, this is really a bit insulting.

Su Yuanshan calmed down and recovered his thoughts: "The prince is also here to visit Nikon?"

"Well, we met an engineer who happened to be at Nikon yesterday." Sun Xiao said and smiled: "But don't take it to heart, Nikon is a small company, and I don't know how awesome you are..."

Su Yuanshan laughed after hearing this: "Senior brother, Mr. Yoshida may vomit blood after hearing what you said."

"I'm telling the truth." Sun Xiao shrugged with some disdain: "I admit that it's okay for them to focus on lenses and cameras, but focusing on one line means that their horizons are also narrow... If it weren't for the lithography machine, we would Who will care about them?"

"You're right. If it weren't for the photolithography machine, we really wouldn't be looking for them."

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The car drove along the avenue into the location of Nikon's headquarters, and was stopped at the gate. After Su Yuanshan and others reported their identities, the security guard called the administrative office.

Not long after, Su Yuanshan saw Shoichiro Yoshida and a group of people coming out in a hurry.

Fortunately, he was not allowed to go upstairs and knock on the door by himself.

Shoichiro Yoshida is now over sixty years old. He has been staying at Nikon since he joined Nikon forty years ago. Such long working hours are common in Japan and are the norm in every company. Therefore, this is also one of the reasons why Niguo is completely absent in the Internet era - the Internet era is destined to be an era of constant job-hopping, continuous growth, and continuous innovation.

He started out as a designer, built astronomical telescopes, and built spectroscopes. Then he followed the trend of the semiconductor industry and built a stepper lithography machine. Finally, he became the director of the precision instrument department in charge of the lithography machine. Until a few years ago, he became the president of the entire company.

It can be seen from Shoichiro Yoshida's rise that in recent years, with the vigorous development of the semiconductor industry, Nikon's photolithography machine manufacturing department has accounted for a huge proportion in Nikon's corporate development.

In two years' time, Shoichiro Yoshida will step down as president and achieve the pinnacle achievement of an "ordinary worker" - becoming the president of Nikon. Finally, he will step down as an honorary consultant and complete the final journey of his life.

"Hello, Mr. Yoshida."

"Mr. Su Yuanshan, welcome."

Both sides spoke almost at the same time, and then faced each other. Fixed their poses under the cameras of their respective entourages to complete the group photo.

Immediately afterwards, Shoichiro Yoshida began to lead Su Yuanshan towards the office.

Su Yuanshan, on the other hand, used the corner of his eyes to observe the movements around him.

Nikon's headquarters building is not big, maybe you can meet the prince?

However, the reality disappointed him.

Shoichiro Yoshida greeted him very politely, quickly entered the elevator, and then entered the president's office.